Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:59:11 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Gary Corcoran <garycor@comcast.net> Subject: Re: Multiple hard disk failures - coincidence ? Message-ID: <20041218195910.GD1068@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <41C3D62D.7000808@comcast.net> <20041218091739.GC97121@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:17:39PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, 2004-Dec-18 02:03:09 -0500, Gary Corcoran wrote: > > I suppose it > >is possible these errors may have shown up more than a week or > >two ago, because my windows machines, reaching them via samba, > >haven't shown any problems until today, and of course with almost > >750GB of data, it's not all accessed over a short time span. > > My approach to this is to add a line similar to > dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=32k > for each disk into /etc/daily.local (or /etc/weekly.local or whatever). > This ensures that the disks are readable on a regular basis. Regular reading of every file is part of what I call backup. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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